Appointments to developer of open architecture software solutions.

Lynx Software Technologies has appointed experienced industry executives Michel Genard and Ed Dolanski to its Board of Directors.

Michel Genard

Genard brings over three decades of experience working with embedded software companies, most recently serving as Vice President of Product Management at Wind River, an established provider of embedded safety and security solutions. As a member of Wind River's executive leadership team, Genard oversaw product strategy under Intel’s ownership and following the sale of the company to TPG in 2018. Earlier in his tenure at Wind River he held leadership positions, including Vice President and General Manager of the Industrial IoT and Aerospace and Defense business unit and management of the company’s first European research and development center. Genard has also held leadership roles at Virtutech, a provider of simulation software tools, which was acquired by Intel in 2010, at TimeSys, a provider of Linux-based security solutions for the embedded market, and at Integrated Systems, a provider of embedded and computer-aided engineering software, which was acquired by Wind River in 2000.

“Lynx’s success with the selection of its LYNX MOSA.ic™ software framework to support the upgrade of the mission system avionics for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program represents an exciting and critical turning point in the Company’s trajectory and in how the industry deploys mission critical edge applications. Customers are increasingly looking for collaborative partners who can help them more efficiently design, deploy, and maintain mission-critical systems, and I look forward to working with the Lynx team to evolve the Company’s product strategy to further align with these evolving requirements and to accelerate the Company’s growth,” said Genard.

Ed Dolanski

Dolanski brings over thirty years of experience within the aerospace and defense end markets, recently serving as President of Boeing’s U.S. Government Services business. In this role, Dolanski oversaw all aspects of the business, including growth, operations, and technology strategy. Previously, Dolanski held leadership positions across multiple Boeing business units, including President of the $10 billion Global Services & Support unit within Boeing Defense, Space & Security and President and CEO of Aviall, and he also served as the Vice President of Raytheon’s Mission Support & Cyber Engagement and Services business units. Dolanski serves on the Board of Directors of VSE Corporation and as the Chairman of the Board of MD Helicopters.

“Technology evolution has not only expanded the capabilities of customers but also increased the risks tied to the interoperability of related systems and cybersecurity. My time with Raytheon and Boeing helped me understand the evolving needs of both commercial and government customers, and I believe Lynx’s differentiated products and strategy can help to address these important challenges. I’m thrilled to work with the Lynx and OceanSound teams to support the Company's growth,” stated Dolanski.

“We are thrilled to welcome Michel and Ed as members of our Board of Directors as they each bring decades of relevant experience and leadership to Lynx,” commented Tim Reed, Chief Executive Office of Lynx. “Their track records overseeing growth and operational excellence and their vast network of industry relationships make them ideally suited to join our Board to support the company as we enact our value creation strategy.”

“Michel and Ed bring a deep, complementary understanding of Lynx’s core markets, and specifically the evolution of the software architectures needed to optimize functionality, scalability, security, speed, and costs to better serve and grow customer relationships. Their insights, experiences, and networks will be invaluable to the Company, its customers, and partners. We look forward to working with each of them, Tim, and the Lynx management team to execute on our shared vision,” said Joe Benavides, Managing Partner of OceanSound.

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Financial Officer.

Amanda Blum has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer with Lynx Software Technologies. Blum was previously with Green Hills Software, an established provider of embedded safety and security solutions, where she served as the Corporate Controller. She will oversee finance, accounting and other administrative support functions and report into CEO Tim Reed.

Amanda Blum

“As we seek to accelerate growth, organically and with acquisitions, and optimize the Lynx business, it was critical for us to bring on a financial leader capable of providing our team with the data and insights needed to make business decisions in real time. Amanda’s experience in the embedded safety and security software industry combined with her broad skillset, spanning accounting, financial planning and analysis, M&A and tax, make her an obvious choice to add to the Lynx leadership team. I’m excited to welcome her aboard and look forward to partnering with her in this next phase of the Company’s growth,” Reed stated.

"I’m thrilled to join Lynx‘s executive leadership team at this critical juncture. In today’s environment, Lynx is in a unique position to help customers ensure that their mission critical systems can be relied upon to operate as intended, on time and securely, while simultaneously enabling customers to be more efficient and nimbler. I look forward to partnering with Tim and the rest of the Lynx team to accelerate growth,” commented Blum.

Prior to joining Green Hills, Blum held several senior financial and accounting positions at Sientra, Inc., a publicly traded medical device company. Her responsibilities spanned accounting, financial planning and analysis, SEC reporting and tax, while also participating in strategic M&A activities. She is a certified public accountant and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Business Economics with an emphasis in Accounting.

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New CEO for embedded systems provider.

Lynx Software Technologies has appointed Tim Reed as Chief Executive Officer. Reed was previously with Green Hills Software, an established provider of embedded safety and security solutions, where he served as the Senior Vice President of the Advanced Products division and as a member of the executive leadership team.

Reed succeeds Gurjot Singh, who joined Lynx in 1992 and has served as CEO since 2008, recently leading the Company in securing a strategic investment from an affiliate of OceanSound Partners, LP (“OceanSound”). Singh will continue to serve on the Board of Directors and will advise the Company on key initiatives, including corporate strategy and supporting key customer relationships.

“It has been a privilege to lead the talented team at Lynx over the last fourteen years,” Singh stated. “Tim’s deep technical understanding of the dynamics affecting our core markets, as well as his experience spanning engineering, go-to-market, and management, will position him for success leading Lynx through this next chapter of growth. I look forward to continuing to support the Company’s growth, partnering with Tim, the Lynx team, OceanSound, and our Board of Directors as we deliver differentiated technology solutions to address the most mission-critical requirements of our clients.”

“I’ve long been familiar with Lynx and its suite of open architecture solutions built on a foundation of security and reliability. Clients in aerospace, defense, industrial, and critical infrastructure markets need to field systems with increasing levels of reliability, agility, and security, and I believe Lynx’s core solutions are positioned at the center of these trends,” commented Reed. “I am thrilled to join Lynx as its new CEO as my vision for evolution and growth is tightly aligned with OceanSound and the management team.”

“The embedded software market has long been a priority investment area for our team, and we are excited to collaborate with Tim to execute on our growth and value creation strategy,” said Joe Benavides, Managing Partner of OceanSound. 

“When we first met with Gurjot and the Lynx team, we were immediately impressed by their strategy, vision, and success advancing Lynx to where it is today. We are confident Tim will further establish Lynx as the leading provider of open architecture software solutions for these evolving markets,” said David Stein, a Principal with OceanSound.

During his long tenure at Green Hills, Reed held a variety of roles including engineering and engineering management roles for real-time operating system, hypervisor, and compiler tool chain technologies, leading the professional services organization, and overseeing sales channels and new product launches. His experience spans automotive, industrial, aerospace, and defense end-markets, and he brings expertise in software robustness, formal verification, and the use of new programming languages in safety- and security-critical applications. Reed graduated with a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology.

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Starter Kit Options for IT/OT Convergence.

Advantech and Lynx Software Technologies have partnered to offer multiple Mission Critical Edge Starter Kit options that enable the convergence of IT (Information Technology) and OT (Operational Technology).

LYNX MOSA.ic™ for Industrial, Lynx’s mission critical edge platform, provides virtual air gapping between the control automation and other workloads. It is available for implementation on select Advantech industrial hardware, which reduces integration time for OT edge processing. These Mission Critical Edge Starter Kits enable the following:

• Implementation of the edge use cases in the OT domain
• Virtual air gapping of IT and OT workloads
• OT operators’ ownership of the system management
• vPLC, Machine Learning and Security running on the same system
• Ability to host cloud workloads in the OT domain without impacting operators

The foundational building block in LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial is the LynxSecure® Separation Kernel, which provides strong isolation of applications, deterministic real-time performance and management of critical system assets to increase immunity to cybersecurity attacks. Additionally, Lynx has developed unique management technologies that allow Mission Critical Edge systems to be deployed at scale and meet the strict requirements of systems that enable OT & IT convergence.

Many networks across a variety of verticals including government, military, financial services, power plants, and industrial manufacturing have been so-called “air-gapped.” This means they are physically and logically isolated from other networks where communication between these networks is not physically or logically possible.

The combination of Advantech hardware and Lynx software allows users to have IT/OT collaboration and network separation. In the starter kit, hardware partitioning is provided by Lynx Separation Kernel (LSK). Additional features ideal for customers include the following:  •Nodes based on LynxSecure Separation Kernel Hypervisor  •Support for multiple guest OS (VMs)  •Virtual KVM support  •Explicit allocation of storage and other dedicated resources  •Precise definition of inter-VM connectivity and communication

“One of the primary concerns expressed to us by OT operators has been how to deploy edge technologies in the OT domain,” said Pavan Singh, vice president of product management, Lynx Software Technologies. “By leveraging virtual air gapping, OT operators can focus on the business benefits of new data and machine learning technologies without worrying about the impact on their operations.”

Advantech hardware devices targeted for both Level 1 operational hierarchy for direct control and Level 2 supervisory control include the MIC-770 modular industrial PC and the UNO-137 embedded automation computer. Depending on the level of consolidation needed, both devices combine with LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial for an ideal OT/IT solution.

“We’re happy to be able to support the LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial solution with our MIC-770 and UNO-137 industrial computing devices,” said Jon Towslee, Sr. Director, iFactory, Advantech Industrial IoT Group. “We’re always trying to offer more ways for customers to be able to securely and easily deploy solutions at the edge. Our goal is to continue working with innovative solution partners to make data connectivity easier and more efficient to adopt when utilizing our industrial, intelligent devices.”

Advantech’s MIC-770 series of PCs provide high-performance computing, multiple I/O interfaces, and flexible expandability with the integration of i-Modules and iDoor. They can be widely deployed to support various industrial IoT applications. The MIC-770 series can be equipped with a wide range of processors to provide custom entry-level and high-end solutions. With the provision of multiple I/O for connecting devices, MIC-770 systems can serve as a data gateway and industrial controller.

UNO-137 is an industrial-grade integrated IoT edge gateway ideal for industrial automation. Its new modular design includes a base unit and an optional extension kit, which supports Advantech’s iDoor technology to integrate additional industrial Fieldbus, I/O, and wireless communication.

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Partnership bridges IT and OT worlds in mission-critical industrial environments

Lynx Software Technologies has announced a partnership with the CODESYS Group to provide a platform that can deploy industrial control automation technology on general purpose computer platforms alongside artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML), security and other application workloads.

The LYNX MOSA.ic™ for Industrial product, Lynx’s mission critical edge platform, provides virtual air gapping between the control automation and other workloads. The combination makes it possible for edge use cases that require mixed criticality workloads to be hosted on the same hardware platform.

The foundational building block in the LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial product is the LynxSecure® Separation Kernel, which provides strong isolation of applications, deterministic real-time performance and management of critical system assets outside operating systems to increase immunity to cybersecurity attacks. In addition, Lynx has developed unique management technologies that allow mission critical edge systems to be deployed at scale and meet the unique requirements of systems that enable OT and IT convergence.

In the majority of current deployments, Information Technology (IT) and Operational Technology (OT) domains are separated by a demilitarized zone, the platform from Lynx and CODESYS can enable a software programmable logic controller (PLC), an ML/AI model, a human-machine interface (HMI) and an IoT Gateway workload to all run on the same edge system without hampering real-time performance.

“Our partnership with Lynx provides a bridge between the IT and OT worlds so industrial operators can now experience both functions coexisting on the same system while simultaneously meeting security and performance demands across every single edge workload in their mission critical industrial environments,” said Dieter Hess, co-CEO and co-founder of the CODESYS Group.

Benefits for industrial operators of the combination of technologies include: 

• Flexibility to deploy, manage and update workloads using the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor and its manageability features, following a consistent software lifecycle management, from the cloud to industrial endpoints
• Reduced system cost, power and footprint from the integration of multiple discrete systems into a single platform, while maintaining the real-time performance, reliability and safety demanded by OT networks
• Flexible management model of edge OT systems - devices can be managed from within the OT zone and host cloud managed and delivered workload alongside the CODESYS-based workload.

“By welcoming CODESYS into our growing industrial partner ecosystem we are able to solve an important challenge in the industry - that of enabling the software-defined world on the operational floor,” said Pavan Singh, vice president of product management, Lynx Software Technologies. “Now operators can leverage the best of new technologies developed in the information technology world while protecting and enhancing their current operations.”

• This partnership builds upon Lynx’s growing technology partner ecosystem to accelerate the realization of mission critical edge for industrial applications. Other recent news includes partnerships with Bosch Italia, Eurotech and the availability of Lynx MOSA.ic for Industrial in the Microsoft Azure marketplace.

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Avionics framework for flight control and vehicle management.

Lynx Software Technologies has announced that Collins Aerospace, a Raytheon Technologies business, has selected the LYNX MOSA.ic™ for Avionics framework as the foundation for its next-generation Perigon™ flight control and vehicle management computer.

Commenting, Gurjot Singh, CEO of Lynx Software Technologies, said, “Lynx is honored to extend its long history of collaboration with Collins Aerospace with the selection of the LYNX MOSA.ic for Avionics framework for this ground-breaking program. LYNX MOSA.ic for Avionics was selected because its advanced architecture significantly lowers the effort, cost and risk of developing, certifying and maintaining safety-critical avionics applications deployed on multicore processors.”
 

Perigon™ will have the ability to provide 20 times the processing power of Collins’ existing flight control computers, thousands of which are currently in service on a multitude of platforms worldwide. Combined with its open-system design, Perigon™’s high computing power will allow customers to load it with a variety of complex software applications, including autonomous and fly-by-wire flight control, cybersecurity, vehicle management and predictive health maintenance. The modular, open system approach of the LYNX MOSA.ic for Avionics framework will provide a robust, modular foundation for Perigon™, easing future adaptation to a wide variety of applications including those certifiable to DO-178C DAL A.

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Robust connected camera-based quality system for industrial environments.

Bosch VHIT (Vacuum & oil pump products Italy) has announced that it has partnered with Lynx Software Technologies to test a new proof of concept camera-based quality program for use with real-time decision making in industrial settings. The move is part of Bosch VHIT’s digital transformation of its processes and product development.

The program captures data from cameras on manufacturing plant floors and logistics warehouses and harnesses machine learning algorithms to identify quality issues and feed information into the MES system, in order to generate an optimal decision in real time. When securely connected to the cloud, the system benefits from continued access to advanced artificial intelligence algorithms and data analytics packages.

This partnership enables the digital feedback loop that is reliant on capturing quality images and analyzing the data to provide a safe real-time action. The LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial product enables the program to run multiple functions on a single SoC without compromising performance, security or safety.

“As we continue advancing cutting-edge technology applications for factory automation, we are excited to partner with Lynx to accelerate a new, secure IIoT-based quality system for the market,” said Riccardo Sesini, Digital Transformation Manager, Bosch VHIT. “In increasingly connected manufacturing environments, manufacturers require safe, versatile, and resource-conserving solutions. Lynx has a long history of robust, safety-critical, high-availability systems and was the obvious choice to help us realize this latest program in a safe and scalable way.”

“Partnerships such as this one with Lynx are critical to shaping our future and continuing on our path of innovation to best serve our customers,” Corrado La Forgia, Managing Director, Bosch VHIT.

For new manufacturing quality systems, Lynx’s framework is focused on ensuring security and mitigating any period of equipment downtime that could impact business output. LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial consolidates mixed criticality workloads running on the same multicore processor - the resources and performance provided by the hardware platform, and the capability of the software components. At the same time, the framework completely isolates critical applications from non-critical workloads, in order to provide high levels of immunity to the former from cyber-attacks. Additionally, this greatly reduces the architectural complexity, cost, and number of points of failure - a critical factor in ensuring business resiliency.

“Bosch VHIT’s goal to accelerate the realization of connectivity solutions for a smarter industrial future aligns with our efforts in the space,” said Pavan Singh, Vice President, Product Management. “Providing robust edge solutions for the connected camera-based quality system will enable real-time responses to be delivered to events while ensuring critical applications run reliably and safely alongside other functions operating on the server/gateway hardware.”

This latest partnership builds upon Lynx’s growing technology partner ecosystem to accelerate the realization of mission critical edge for industrial applications.

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Cybersecurity and COVID-19.

Lynx Software has announced the results of its pandemic cybersecurity survey* designed to capture U.S. employees’ sentiment toward how seriously companies have taken cybersecurity since the start of COVID-19. Companies have not done enough to prevent heightened security risk in light of remote working, as nearly 4 in 10 (36%) respondents have been, or know someone who has been, impacted by a cybersecurity attack since the start of COVID-19.

Secure Laptops & the Enterprise of the Future

Lynx’s survey findings of 1,000 working Americans indicates that a large majority of respondents (69%) are more concerned about cybersecurity risks during COVID-19 than they were before the pandemic - as perimeter-based security is no longer possible so device infrastructure becomes even more vulnerable. Worryingly, less than half (49%) of respondents said their organisation’s cybersecurity has strengthened since the start of the pandemic. Employees are mostly concerned about how this could impact their data privacy as 54% of respondents indicated that the biggest cybersecurity concern they have is their personal data being compromised.

Employee IT behaviour is leaving many companies exposed to heightened cybersecurity risks during the pandemic. While working remotely:

· 76% of respondents use a personal device for work at least sometimes · 75% use cloud based services to store and edit their documents · 60% use a USB to move work files · 22% are not sure if they are able to switch off their work Virtual Private Network (VPN) and 22% know they aren’t able to · 65% indicated that their company allows them to use their work computer for accessing personal services

Since they started working remotely, many respondents said their company has not doubled down sufficiently on strengthening security policies and measures:

· 60% say their company has not prohibited the use of certain apps and tools that do not meet high security standards · 58% say their company has not implemented antivirus software · 48% are not aware of their company implementing strict IT security policies

“Organisations of all types need to prioritise finding ways to secure end-points for their employees’ devices, whether they are on laptops, edge servers or anything between, especially in the remote, zero-trust environment we are living in. For IT teams this doesn’t have to mean prohibitive costs or compromising performance,” said Arun Subbarao, vice president of engineering and technology at Lynx Software. “At Lynx, we endorse increased security awareness for IT in order to combat risks that have come as a result of people’s increasingly virtual lifestyles since COVID-19.

Lynx’s survey illustrated that not all employees are aware of the additional cybersecurity risks they are exposed to since working remotely or what to do in a threatening situation. While 95% of respondents agreed that it is important that they feel like their work laptop is secure, 3 in ten were not aware that company devices used outside of the workplace are at greater risk for cyber threats. In addition, over half indicated that they would not be able to recognise if their work device had been hacked, and three in ten would not know what actions to take if they sense their device has been attacked.

The fight to protect organisations from risks in zero-trust environments and educate employees on cybersecurity policies and protocols is far from over. Once vaccinations have been more widely rolled out and office returns get underway, 70% of people surveyed still expect to be working from home for some period of the work week, making cybersecurity a priority for IT teams beyond the pandemic. Survey respondents shared their perspective on what steps companies can start with:

· 51% say that organisations can make them more aware of the actions they are taking against cybersecurity risks by sharing policies · 50% would like training sessions · 44% would appreciate weekly newsletter updates on cybersecurity efforts

*Survey Methodology: Findings are based on a Pollfish survey of 1,000 employed Americans. The survey ran on February 19, 2021.

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Winning security platform.

Annual IoT Breakthrough Awards Program recognizes standout Internet-of-Things companies and products.

The LYNX MOSA.ic™ product has been selected as the winner of the “IoT Security Platform of the Year” award in the 5th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program conducted by IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market today.

“Our validated solution allows system integrators and operators to offer software-defined industrial automation systems with functionality that spans virtualized programmable logic controllers, data analytics, protocol translation and communications, while also delivering strong security, support for real-time and deterministic performance, and the potential for safety certification,” said Ian Ferguson, VP of marketing  at Lynx Software Technologies. “We are exceptionally grateful to receive this industry recognition, and I consider it a testament to the hard work from the entire Lynx team.”

This product is offered as tailored bundles to support specific use cases: 

• LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial, 
• LYNX MOSA.ic for UAVs/Satellites and 
• LYNX MOSA.ic for Avionics. 

LYNX MOSA.ic™ for Industrial features a combination of LynxSecure®, the proven separation kernel hypervisor, a set of guest operating systems including Linux and Microsoft® Windows®, and a set of system integrations including connectivity through the Microsoft Azure® IoT Edge platform.

With LynxSecure, there is no system configuration change after startup and, therefore, no hardware re-mapping, device assignment, memory allocation or changes to security or scheduling policies. There is strong isolation of applications from each other and, critically, no single OS controlling all system resources to improve systems’ immunity to malicious attack or accidental system failures.

LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial enables mission-critical edge applications, delivering deterministic real-time performance, security and safety benefits, while also providing seamless integration with cloud Infrastructure and data analytics services.

“LYNX MOSA.ic for Industrial offers an exceptionally elegant technology for building and integrating complex multi-core safety or security-critical systems,” said James Johnson, managing director at IoT Breakthrough. “Congratulations to the whole team at Lynx Software Technologies on winning our 'IoT Security Platform of the Year' award for 2021. We both expect and look forward to more breakthrough innovation from the Lynx team in the future.”

The mission of the IoT Breakthrough Awards program is to recognize the innovators, leaders and visionaries from around the globe in a range of IoT categories, including Industrial and Enterprise IoT, Smart City technology, Connected Home and Home Automation, Connected Car, and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 3,850 nominations from companies all over the world.

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Appointments at software innovator.

Lynx Software Technologies has named Ian Ferguson as Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Alliances and Pavan Singh as Vice President of Product Management to strengthen its focus on delivering safety critical, autonomous systems for aerospace, defence, automotive, industrial and other markets. They join Keith Shea, who was named Chief Revenue Officer and Board Advisor by Lynx in December.

Ian Ferguson

Commenting Gurjot Singh, CEO of Lynx said, “Ian Ferguson’s track record in taking complex and disruptive technologies to market and building strong strategic partnerships is exceptional and he is a great addition to the Lynx team. Working alongside him, Pavan Singh brings exceptional experience in software platforms for the IoT. Lynx technology is core to the creation of self-directed, connected and secure systems. With the appointment of Ian and Pavan, we have completed a talented and focussed executive team who will develop the opportunities open to Lynx in new and existing markets.”

Ian Ferguson added, “Lynx has a thirty year history in delivering robust, safety-critical, high-availability software technology to the aerospace and defence industries. The attributes of our product portfolio are increasingly appropriate for a range of industrial, automotive and critical IT infrastructure as companies look to develop, certify and deploy autonomous systems that are safe, secure and trusted.”

Pavan Singh

Pavan Singh commented, “Lynx has built a strong track record in delivering the platform technologies for mixed criticality systems without compromising their security. The company is uniquely positioned to help the leaders in the aerospace and defense, industrial and automotive industries accelerate their journey from today to the vision of fully autonomous systems that are completely safe, secure and trusted. I am delighted to join the Lynx management team.”

Ian Ferguson spent over ten years at Arm, where his positions included VP, Ecosystem Development, IoT Services Group; VP of Worldwide Marketing and Strategic Alliances and VP of Segment Marketing. As Director of Server Systems and Ecosystem his achievements included conceiving and implementing the initial energy efficient data centers. More recently, Ian has been consulting for a range of clients focused on technologies such as blockchain, machine learning and robotics. Other technical marketing experience includes positions at Arduino, Linaro, IDT and Motorola Semiconductor (now NXP).

Pavan Singh, Vice President of Product Management, will take responsibility for the Lynx product strategy and portfolio management including the Lynx MOSA.ic™ framework announced at Embedded World in 2019. Pavan has spent more than 16 years in technology leadership roles helping companies unlock rapid growth. He was previously Senior Director, Product, IoT Edge at Wind River. Pavan is recognized as a thought leader in the Internet of Things and has consulted with start-ups and corporations on their digital transformation strategy. He also held leadership role in the IoT Solutions Group at Cisco Systems. He holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, an MS from the Texas A&M University and Bachelor degree from the Indian Institute of Technology – Bombay.

• The Lynx Executive Team operates under the leadership of Gurjot Singh. In addition to Ian Ferguson and Pavan Singh, it includes Will Keegan, CTO; Arun Subbarao, Vice President of Engineering; Ingrid Osborne, Vice President of Finance and Neeraja Vemulapalli, Vice President of Program Management and Quality; Keith Shea, Chief Revenue Officer and Board Advisor and Dr Flavio Bonomi, Board Advisor.

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Key appointments at platform software technologies leader.

Lynx Software Technologies has made key appointments to its leadership team and significantly expanded headcount at its headquarters in San Jose (CA USA). Neeraja Vemulapalli joins Lynx in a newly created role as Vice President, Program Management and Quality, and David Beal joins as Director of Product Marketing. Lynx has also significantly expanded its core software engineering team to support program delivery.

Neeraja Vemulapalli

Gurjot Singh, CEO at Lynx Software Technologies, said, “Lynx is at an exciting point in its history. We have launched and delivered Lynx MOSA.ic, a unique software development framework for developing and deploying comprehensible software systems, bringing capabilities that have allowed us to secure key subsystems within major US government and automotive industry programs. Neeraja and David are exceptionally talented individuals, and I look forward to their contribution as we work together to build on these successes and the positive momentum we are currently experiencing across our major markets.”

Neeraja Vemulapalli added, “Lynx has a reputation for exceptional quality and high standards in industries where safety and security are fundamental. I’m excited to be part of the team where my experience and industry background will bring improved program management, quality and support to our customers. Lynx culture of openness and willingness to change allows us to continuously improve, adapt, and help our customers succeed.”

David Beal

David Beal commented, “The Lynx MOSA.ic launch was a great step for the company. This unique and modular system approach has the potential to fundamentally change the way in which the industry builds and certifies complex systems in any market where safety and security are important. I’m looking forward to working with our teams and partners to make this a success.”

Neeraja Vemulapalli was at Wind River for 21 years. Her most recent position was Engineering Director, managing a large engineering team responsible for end-end development and delivery of core products.

David Beal joins from Xilinx, where he spent over seven years as Senior Product Manager, Embedded Products. David Beal brings over 25 years of embedded, field engineering and product management experience.

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Systems software group expands European team!

Lynx Software Technologies has expanded its European team with the appointment of Andrew Turnbull as Senior Director, EMEA Sales and Tim Loveless as Principal Solutions Architect. They both report to Lee Cresswell, vice president of global sales at Lynx.

Andrew Turnbull

Lee Cresswell commented, “Lynx is seeing significant opportunities in Europe with interest from automotive, aerospace and defence and industrial markets in particular. We’re scaling up our presence in the region to enable us to engage successfully with these customers. Lynx is delighted to welcome two individuals of exceptional calibre to its global team. Andrew Turnbull has extensive experience of key account management, including leading engineering and marketing teams. Tim Loveless is a deeply experienced FAE in the embedded real-time and safety-critical arena. We are confident that both will contribute significantly to our future success."

Tim Loveless

Andrew Turnbull takes responsibility for Lynx customers in the EMEA region. He joined Lynx from Oracle, where he was Senior Sales Manager, MySQL Embedded Europe. He has exceptional experience of sales and marketing in the software and semiconductor industries, including roles with Integrated Device Technology (IDT), Tundra Semiconductor, Wintegra, Wind River, Integrated Systems and Motorola Semiconductor.

Tim Loveless will work closely with Andrew, offering providing technical leadership in solution design and development for EMEA customers. He has over 20 years’ experience of embedded real time and safety critical systems development, including ten years leading an FAE team at Wind River (Intel).

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VP Sales for embedded software.

Lynx Software Technologies has promoted Lee Cresswell to a worldwide role as Vice President of Sales. Lee was previously Sales Director, EMEA at Lynx and brings over 20 years’ experience in embedded software markets.

Lee Cresswell

Discussing the promotion, Gurjot Singh, CEO, Lynx said, “Lee has been central to Lynx’s success since he joined in 2013 and we are looking forward to benefitting from his insight at a strategic level in his new role. We are seeing ever growing opportunities for the safe and secure software platforms that Lynx delivers. Lee’s vision and his understanding of our customers will be invaluable as we move to serve these new markets and address new opportunities.”

Lee Cresswell added, “This is a very exciting time for Lynx, as we leverage our military-grade security and aviation-grade safety technologies to deliver some much needed innovation in the embedded market. This will enable Lynx to deliver more value to its existing customers in the safety-critical avionics and security-critical defence markets, and to offer the same benefits to new customers in markets such as unmanned systems, automotive and industrial IoT, where safety and security are becoming necessities. I am excited to be offered the opportunity to lead the strong Lynx sales team as they take our advanced kernel technologies to customers around the world.”

Lee Cresswell joined Lynx Software Technologies as Sales Director, EMEA in 2013. Prior to that he was Director, International Sales at Real-Time Innovations (RTI), where he had responsibility for sales in the EMEA region including both direct and indirect accounts. Previously he held European sales positions with Texas Instruments and Wind River. Lee Cresswell has a BSc in Computer Science from the University of York and an MBA from the London Business School.

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New technology chief at embedded software company.

Lynx Software Technologies has named Will Keegan as Chief Technology Officer. Will was previously Technical Director, Software Security at Lynx with responsibility for leading the LynxSecure separation kernel hypervisor product line.

Will Keegan

Gurjot Singh, CEO, Lynx said, “Will Keegan has played an exceptional role in the success of our software security product line.  He brings to the CTO position a strong software engineering background together with deep experience in safety-critical and security-critical industries. His contribution as CTO will be immensely valuable to us as he will lead the technology direction for all of our products, LynxOS, LynxOS178 and LynxSecure. With his guidance, we will continue to provide leading technology for the aerospace and defense community, and capture emerging market opportunities such as securing connected vehicles and delivering a safe and secure Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT).”

Will Keegan added, “Lynx has an incredibly strong technology offering and engineering team. We are ideally positioned to support the rapid growth and demand for assurance of safety and security in intelligent automotive, IIoT, and medical systems. I am excited to have the opportunity to contribute to its further development and success.”

Will Keegan joined Lynx in 2011. Prior to this he was Product Engineer at Objective Interface Systems, Inc. for over four years, with responsibility for product engineering of real-time middleware and high assurance cryptographic network technologies.

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Protecting critical industrial infrastructure.

Lynx Software Technologies is participating in the inaugural IoT Security Foundation (IoTSF) Conference by delivering a joint paper with Webroot, and by exhibiting at the event. The Conference takes place at the Royal Society's august premises in London's Savoy Place next week (December 1 2015).

Will Keegan

Lynx announced a strategic partnership with Webroot in October. The two companies are combining their security technologies to enable developers to build advanced threat detection and protection into Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices. Lynx joined the IoTSF also in October.

At the event, Will Keegan, Technical Director, Software Security at Lynx Software Technologies, and David DuFour, Senior Director of Security Architecture, Webroot will present a paper entitled, “Protecting Critical Industrial Infrastructure Using Isolation Technology and Threat Intelligence”. It will show how sophisticated isolation kernel technology can change connected devices or gateways from being a point of attack to a point of defense.

David DuFour

Lynx Software Technologies is exhibiting its embedded RTOS and virtualization solutions offering unique safety and security functionality while embracing open standards. Its products are deployed in industries including IoT, industrial, A&D, medical and transportation. Lynx Software Technologies will be showing how the combination of its LynxOS RTOS and LynxSecure hypervisor can provide built-in security for both the connected ‘Things’ and also the infrastructure that they connect to by offering isolation of network domains. Lynx products are deployed in industries including IoT, industrial, A&D, medical and transportation.

The LynxSecure hypervisor brings unique protection characteristics to intelligent devices, gateways and cloud infrastructure. It combines military-grade security with hard real-time scheduling, offering unique differentiation against traditional virtualization solutions. The separation kernel and “Type-0” hypervisor is an award winning bare-metal architecture, designed from the ground up, that differentiates from type 1 hypervisors by removing the un-needed functionality from the “security sensitive” hypervisor mode, yet virtualizes guest OSes in a tiny stand-alone package. LynxSecure is being migrated to Cortex-A family members that offer hardware virtualization support.

The open-standards based LynxOS 7.0 brings military-grade security to the protection of connected sensors and endpoints. It is a deterministic, hard real-time operating system that provides POSIX conformant API’s in a small footprint embedded kernel. LynxOS 7.0 is being migrated initially to the ARM Cortex®-A series of processor cores, including processors from Xilinx, TI and Freescale. LynxOS 7.0 also supports the most popular reference targets in the Intel and PowerPC architectures including the new Intel 4th Generation Core, and the Freescale QorIQ processors.

Supporting IoT Security.

Lynx Software Technologies has joined the recently launched Internet of Things Security Foundation (IoTSF) to support its vision of delivering a safe Internet of Things environment for all.

Robert Day, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Lynx Software Technologies, said, “We are very excited about this industry wide initiative to tackle the issue of IoT security and promote and share best practice. We strongly share its commitment to IoT security and are delighted to join the shared mission to make it safe for devices to connect. Lynx has a great deal of experience to offer the emerging IoT, and our technologies offer the highest levels of safety and security, proven and certified in deployed systems. Solutions like LynxSecure, with its recently announced real time advanced persistent threat (APT) detection functionality, will we believe make a significant contribution to the creation of a safe and secure IoT.”

What is The IoTSF?

The IoTSF is a non-profit, technology neutral body, which will take a system wide, holistic perspective on IoT security best practice. It is not a standards body but intends to work collaboratively with existing standards and other consortia “by default”.

The programme of activities of the foundation will initially target three key stakeholder groups: technology providers, systems adopters and end users. IoTSF has an executive steering board comprised of leading technology organisations and security experts including BT, Vodafone, Imagination Technologies, Royal Holloway University of London, Copper Horse Solutions, Secure Thingz, NMI and PenTest Partners.

John Haine, industry veteran and visiting professor at the University of Bristol has been announced as the inaugural chair.

Partnership to protect connected IoT devices from targeted attacks.

BrightCloud® Threat Intelligence and LynxSecure Virtualization Platform Integration Delivers Advanced Threat Detection and Protection in Real Time

Webroot and Lynx Software Technologies have announced a strategic partnership. The companies are combining unique security technologies which enable developers to build advanced threat detection and protection into Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) devices.

The Webroot® IoT Security Toolkit enables IoT and IIoT system integrators and solution designers to integrate real-time threat intelligence services and intelligent cybersecurity device agents to protect critical systems against modern threats. The LynxSecure Hypervisor from Lynx Software Technologies is a secure virtualization solution that is based on separation kernel technology, originally designed to separate and protect military networks at different classification levels.

Combining these technologies involves embedding components of the Webroot IoT Security Toolkit inside the LynxSecure Hypervisor secure virtual space. This allows for detection, identification and containment of threats without the constraints or risks inherent in running solutions at the operating system level. Any threats that enter the IoT environment can be quickly identified by Webroot BrightCloud threat intelligence, quarantined using the LynxSecure isolation capabilities, and removed from the system.

“With constantly changing security threats, we need an IoT security solution that adapts to any environment while taking into account the importance of future-proofing and the need for living protection,” said Dick Williams, Webroot CEO. “As we bring our cloud-based threat intelligence to IoT developers through the Webroot IoT Security Toolkit, we see a very clear alliance with Lynx. By combining our technologies, we’re able to offer a unique solution to protect the connected IoT world from advanced targeted threats.”

“The foundational security protection that LynxSecure offers to embedded developers is already being used in IoT systems today,” said Gurjot Singh, CEO, Lynx Software Technologies. “By integrating solutions powered by cloud-based threat intelligence from Webroot, we can substantially increase threat awareness and resilience to protect the increasing number of IoT systems that are being connected to the outside world.”

“At VDC we have observed a dramatic increase in investments made toward securing IoT devices, especially as more critical systems are being connected to the Internet,” said Chris Rommel, executive vice president, IoT and embedded technology, VDC Research. “We believe that building systems with a secure platform linked to advanced threat intelligence, as offered by Lynx and Webroot, will go a long way in mitigating advanced cyber threats in Internet connected devices.”